History is the narrative of great actions with praise or blame.
—Cotton Mather
Topics: History
The injuries of life, if rightly improved, will be to us as the strokes of the statuary on his marble, forming us to a more beautiful shape, and making us fitter to adorn the heavenly temple.
—Cotton Mather
Topics: Misfortune, Injury
Charity … is kind, it is not easily provok’d, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.
—Cotton Mather
Topics: Charity
Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
—Cotton Mather
Topics: Opportunity
History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
—Cotton Mather
Topics: Blame
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Increase Mather American Theologian
- Charles William Eliot American Educator
- Robert H. Schuller American Televangelist, Author
- Dwight L. Moody Christian Religious Leader
- Chuck Swindoll American Christian Pastor
- Adam Smith Scottish Philosopher
- David Livingstone Scottish Missionary, Explorer
- Charles Henry Parkhurst American Clergyman
- William Sloane Coffin American Presbyterian Clergyman
- Lyman Beecher American Presbyterian Clergyman
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